Comment to the book ‘La terapia psicodinamica è efficace? Il dibattito e le evidenze empiriche’

In this book Paolo Migone collects a number of articles on the topic of the effectiveness of psychodynamic therapy published over the years in the pages of Psychotherapy and Human Sciences. After an introduction in which he introduces the book and a first chapter in which he discusses general issues on the problem of research in psychotherapy (what does 'scientific' research in psychotherapy mean and the difference between clinical and empirical research, the issue of replicability with also a clinical example, and hints on the history of the research movement in psychotherapy), there are the remaining nine chapters.[...]